The Hibernia field is owned by ExxonMobil (33.2 percent)
Chevron Texaco (26.8 percent)
Petro-Canada (20 percent)
Canada Hibernia Holding Corp. (8.5 percent)
Murphy Oil (6.5 percent)
Norsk Hydro (5 percent).
Yes, we make sure we destroy a rig that 60% of it belongs to US multinationals, why not? It only cost $7 Billion to build. And why stop there? 90% of the oil pumped is imported to the US, we may as well add to the energy crisis. And while we're doing this we might as well endanger 300 lives on purpose, just for laughs.
We do this because we are such an evil empire to the point its even fun doing it to ourselves!
The Hibernia platform is located about 315 kilometres east of St. John's. That is not Canadian Waters JackD, nor in any Canadian news does it say so. That’s you, “buffing” up the news a bit.
Yes we fuck up BIG. Let’s not get paranoid over everything.
I can't get the updated news link to work so I copied and pasted it.
Canada Rules U.S. Rocket Risk Low, Oil Keeps Pumping
Thu Apr 14, 2:56 PM ET World - Canada
By Jeffrey Jones
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canada's largest offshore oil platform will not have to be shut down as a precaution against the risk of falling debris from a U.S. rocket, officials said on Thursday, ending a week of unusual diplomatic wrangling.
The Hibernia oil project off the Newfoundland coast had been on alert to halt production and be evacuated before the U.S. Air Force launches a Titan IV rocket on a trajectory that will take it over the region's oil producing area.
Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams said he was satisfied with new assurances from Ottawa that the U.S. could destroy the rocket if anything went awry and it appeared a 10-tonne booster might hit oil installations in the Atlantic Ocean.
The region's regulator, the Canada-Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board, ruled Hibernia and other oil operations can keep running normally, Williams said in a statement.
"After extensive efforts, I am relieved and satisfied that we have been successful in getting the assurances required to ensure the safety of workers on those vessels," he said.
Over the past week, he had voiced frustration over a lack of hard information about the risks of the launch.
The launch at Cape Canaveral, Florida, is now tentatively scheduled for April 20 after several delays, said Air Force spokeswoman Maj. Karen Finn. The United States plans to use the rocket to launch a classified satellite to be used for security purposes.
"It's not uncommon for the launch date to slip like this. The weather conditions have to be just right, everything has to be just right, and typically there's a lot of tinkering that goes on at the last minute," Finn said.
The issue grabbed international attention last Thursday, when the regulator ordered the 200,000 barrel a day Hibernia project evacuated and another rig towed away as a precaution against risks that both countries called minuscule.
Ottawa lobbied Washington to postpone the launch and later that day the Air Force pushed back the mission, prompting the evacuation order to be lifted.
But U.S. officials said they delayed the launch because of problems with the equipment needed to fuel the rocket, not in response to Canadian pressure.
U.S., Canadian, Newfoundland and oil industry representatives met in Nova Scotia last weekend to discuss the safety and environmental risks to the East Coast offshore, but Canadian officials said several thorny questions remained.
Williams said Anne McLellan, Canada's deputy prime minister, wrote to him late Wednesday to assure him that her staff reviewed all the U.S. data and analysis and were satisfied the oil operations will be safe during the launch.
The U.S. Air Force Space Command said its computers track flight paths on a real-time basis and the rockets have "destruct packages" that can be activated remotely if one veers too far from its intended route.
Hibernia, meanwhile, is pumping crude at normal rates, as it has been through the past week's machinations, said Alan Jeffers, spokesman for co-owner Exxon Mobil Corp. .
The other partners in the project, located 315 km (195 miles) southeast of St. John's, Newfoundland, are Petro-Canada, ChevronTexaco, Murphy Oil Corp., the government of Canada's Canada Hibernia Holding Corp. and Norsk Hydro .
over 300 oil workers need to be evacuated and oil production will stopped for 2 weeks.
